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Chandler Reach, Monte Regalo 2006
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2008
Kirkland, Columbia Valley Merlot 2008
D'Aragon, Old Vine Garnacha 2008
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2005
Pavin & Riley, Merlot 2006
David Hill, Estate Pinot Noir, Barrel Select 2006
Castle Rock, Paso Robles Cabernet 2006
Magnificent, Cabernet, Steak House 2008
Conundrum 2008
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1998
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
La Granja, Tempranillo 360, 2008
Santa Rita, Mendalla Real Cabernet 2006
Columbia Crest, Grand Estates Merlot 2006
Andezon, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Collegiata, Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
Troon, Druid's Fluid 2008
La Granja, Tempranillo 2008
Monte Antico, Toscana 2006
Vieux Papes, Blanc de Blancs
Beaulieu, Georges De Latour Cabernet 1995
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, La Paulée, 2006
Woodbridge, Chardonnay
Paranga, Kir-Yianni 2005
L. Guigal, Cotes du Rhone Rose 2007
Newman's Own, Cabernet 2007
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Valley Merlot 2005
Monte Antico, Toscana Red 2006
Saint Cosme, Cotes-du-Rhone 2007
Vins Auvigne, Macon-Fuisse 2007
Vina Gormaz, Tempranillo 2007
Chandon, Brut Classic
Dom Martinho, Tinto 2005
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Kirkland, Napa Cabernet 2007
Revelry, The Reveler, 2007
Joseph Drouhin, Chablis 2006
Altos Las Hormigas, Mendoza Malbec 2008
Alodio, Ribeira Sacra Mencia 2007
Charles Smith, Kung Fu Girl Riesling 2008
Kiona, Lemberger 2006
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Valley Merlot 2005
Gloria Ferrer, Sonoma Brut
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Woodward Canyon, Columbia Valley Red
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Mas Donis Barrica, Celler de Capcanes Red, 2005
Three Rivers, Merlot 2006
Raptor Ridge, Pinot Gris 2008
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Marqués de Cáceres, Rioja Rose 2008
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Portuga, Rose 2008
Warre's Warrior Port
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Comments (18)
Ahhh...I can still hear her shrill, shrieking voice.
Good times....uh, I mean, pretty bad times.
Posted by Chris McMullen | June 12, 2008 11:20 AM
The main thing that separated her from other scam artists was her foul mouth.
Posted by David E gilmore | June 12, 2008 11:28 AM
Indian sex guru and his lover -- too funny. Ms Sheela seems to have lost none of her overweening, self-revering capacity for drivel… Can’t say as I heard any hint of remorse there, either. The woman’s as psycho as ever it seems. Too bad for her patients, though.
Posted by Anne Dufay | June 12, 2008 12:43 PM
Wonder what happened to the late Mr. Birnstiel?
Posted by Bob W | June 12, 2008 1:46 PM
It was an accident.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 12, 2008 1:47 PM
Salad overdose?
Posted by Bob W | June 12, 2008 1:52 PM
Don't eat the Ma Anand croutons.
Posted by Jack Bog | June 12, 2008 2:49 PM
Dispute the messenger all you like, yet the message describes a Dream machine we can make at home, as remedy for dementia and psychopathy and, possibly, the infamy heaped on America out of Bushbutcher's backwards dream: 'maerd', or in Spanish, merde.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 12, 2008 3:26 PM
What's that in Hindi, Tensk?
Posted by Max | June 12, 2008 4:41 PM
Wow. I haven't read such a concentrated dose of babble since Factsheet Five went under.
Posted by Sid | June 12, 2008 5:10 PM
Whoa! Memories. I wanted to talk about being a news reporter during the tenure of Sheela and the Bhagwan in Oregon, but that
Tenskwatawawatawatawata stuff gave me a brain cramp. So I need to take a nap. Some day, ask me about the Bhagwan, Sheela, Margaret Hill, Turner and Dave Frohnmayer.
Posted by RickN | June 12, 2008 6:34 PM
still selling snake oil I see.....
Posted by kathe w. | June 12, 2008 7:34 PM
I met Sheela Silverman a long time ago when the Bhagwan was starting out in Montclair NJ and I was an undergraduate student at Montclair State College. Buy me a beer Jack, and I'll tell you the whole story.
Posted by Matt Jusinski | June 12, 2008 9:53 PM
"but that Tenskwatawawatawatawata stuff gave me a brain cramp."
+++
The Rancho Rajneesh had the highest concentration of PhDs of anywhere. Of course, all the free drugs, sex and red clothing anybody could ever want took a huge toll on each of them. Nowadays, almost all of them are walking urban streets pushing shopping carts and muttering to themselves. All, that is, except one ex-Rajneeshy who spends his time commenting incoherently on a famous Portland Tax Professor's blog.
Posted by Harry | June 12, 2008 9:56 PM
Matt -- Small world!
Posted by Jack Bog | June 12, 2008 10:02 PM
I was a kid working in a Radio Shack in the Thurston neighborhood of Springfield during the early days of Rajneeshpuram, before I'd heard about them. I'd just locked the door on a Sunday evening (after having sold practically nothing all day) when a Rolls Royce pulls up outside, and a woman in a sari and two big Indian guys get out and knock on the door.
I hadn't closed out the register yet, and even though I wasn't supposed to open the door, I did. They came in, bought every piece of phone recording equipment in the store (really primitive stuff, little sucker things that attached to the handpiece) and paid for it all with a Platinum card, which you just didn't see too often in those days, particularly on the outskirts of Springfield in those dark days of the Reagan administration.
I had to go into a meeting at one of the central stores later in the week, and mentioned the incident. One of the other guys said that they'd bought up every piece of phone recording equipment at every RS branch in Eugene and Springfield. Apparently, I was the last stop that day.
Posted by darrelplant | June 13, 2008 6:16 PM
"... one ex-Rajneeshy who spends his time commenting incoherently on a famous Portland Tax Professor's blog. -- Harry | June 12, 2008 9:56 PM." No one should hold it against you; probably you were younger and impressionabler then. Come for the data, stay for the democracy in the sanctuary -- the Free Market of Information.
Happy to be of bother.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | June 14, 2008 10:36 AM
I was in the wholesale business when Rajneesh Puram started rolling. They were initially viewed as a godsend... spending tons of money with area businesses during one of the worst economy's in memory.
Then they started going past due and stiffing all their creditors.
Posted by Dave Lister | June 16, 2008 8:26 AM